Involving Young People in the Care and Support of People Living with HIV/AIDS in Zambia
Discusses findings from a study that examined how to involve youth in the care and support of people living with HIV/AIDS and orphans and vulnerable children.
Discusses findings from a study that examined how to involve youth in the care and support of people living with HIV/AIDS and orphans and vulnerable children.
Summarizes findings from an intervention study to increase use of and satisfaction with VCT services among youth.
Explores the specific issues that cluster around the provision of "care" in the context of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic.
This paper presents the work of Choose Life, a Zimbabwean NGO that works with young people in schools. Choose Life utilizes the power that HIV positive youth have in preventing further infections in their peers.
Youth who do not attend school or who drop out prematurely miss many of the fundamentals of basic education - reading and writing skills, mathematics, and science.
Recent evidence suggests that the burden of new HIV infections in developing countries is concentrated among young people and females.
Greater Involvement of People Infected and Affected by HIV/AIDS (GIPA) is a concept, which involves theoretical and practical principles to involve People Living with HIV and AIDS (PLHA) in various development activities at all levels.
Part 1 of the document discusses the need for family care of children impacted by HIV/AIDS by looking at the universal standards of care, poverty, national policy and donor education.
This document explores the "Declaration of commitment on HIV/AIDS" adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations during its special session on the 21st of June, and the commitments made with regard to mother to child transmission, care and support to children affected by HIV/AID
Depicted as an economic, social and development crisis, HIV/AIDS is less well understood as a human rights crisis, though the rights of persons living with and at risk of AIDS have figured in AIDS policy development from the beginning.